The Free Besieged Will Survive – N. Lygeros
When we look at the problems we face, over time we come to realise that they stem not from their very nature, but from the way they are managed. So whilst we may have the impression that things are difficult, at least at first, after so many attempts we see that it is ultimately our own incompetence that traps us. We are, then, free yet besieged in our own homeland, but not by foreigners, merely by those we chose to solve our problems, without realising that this does not, in essence, concern them. For it is inconceivable that, after all this time, they have still not grasped the concept and value of the EEZ, nor that Greek zeolite offers enormous potential for Thrace. They are still trying to work out what the EuroAsia Interconnector cable and the EastMed natural gas pipeline are all about. They have not even finalised the tender for offshore blocks 1, 2 and 10. They have not launched a new tender for seismic surveys south of Crete with a denser grid. They are not preparing for the new licensing round. They have not concluded talks with Italy and Albania. And yet we are supposed to believe that they can solve what are supposedly serious problems…
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